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ferve, that the quantity of fuel mufl not 

 be enlarged in a ftormy night in the fame 

 degree as in a hot-houfe ; otherwife, all 

 will be ruined. To attempt making a cli- 

 mate for the trees here is ridiculous, and 

 alfo perfedly unneceflary ; the fole inten- 

 tion in the application of fire, being to ri- 

 pen the young flioots for the produdion 

 of fruit next feafon. 



The following quantity and proportion 

 of fmall coal is taken at a medium, and 

 what I have found fufficient to work a well- 

 drawing furnace for years, viz. From the 

 time of lighting the fire to about the loth 

 of September, four ordinary movels-fuli 

 at five, and as much at nine in the evening; 

 from the loth of September to the middle 

 of Odtober, fix fhovels-full at the above 

 times in the evening } and from the middle 

 of Odober to the middle of November, fix 

 fhovels-full at four in the evening, eight 

 fhovels-full at nine, and three or four at 

 feven in the morning. 



The above is only given as a hint ; and 

 much is left to the nature of the feafon, 

 and judgment of the operator. But much 

 care, in this fpecies of forcing, is indifpen- 

 fably neceflary to the infurance of fuccefs. 



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